Olympic swim stars trapped on halted train
By Xu Wenwen |
August 9, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA'S Olympic swimming sensations - Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen - were trapped on a train between Beijing and Hangzhou for a time yesterday.
Sun, 20, winner of four medals at the London Games including two golds, and 16-year-old Ye, who set new world and Olympic records to win two golds, had arrived back in Beijing on Monday.
Both are from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, and had planned to take a flight home from Beijing yesterday. However, all flights were canceled and they decided to take the train.
They were on the 8.05am high-speed G31 service due to arrive in Hangzhou at 2:25pm but it stopped at Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province at around noon because of the typhoon. Sun later microblogged that he was trapped on the train.
When the train eventually continued its journey it got only as far as Shanghai where it terminated at the city's Honqiao Railway Station at 7.30pm, according to another passenger's microblog.
Typhoon Haikui approached Hangzhou's Xiaoshan District at around 2pm yesterday, and then crossed Hangzhou from south to northwest at a speed of 15 to 20 kilometers per hour.
Between Monday night and 6pm yesterday, the rainfall in Hangzhou was 97.5 millmeters, while in Lin'an City, it reached 422.6 millmeters, the highest in the province, according to Hangzhou weather officials.
It is estimated that rain will linger in the city over the next three days.
By 5pm yesterday, police in Hangzhou had received 691 phone calls about the typhoon and had rescued 117,323 people, the Public Security Bureau said.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport was closed yesterday with about 200 people stranded there.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,638 Shanghai tourists were trapped for a time in Anji County in neighboring Zhejiang Province last night after a road was swept away and power supplies were cut off.
About 1,000 of the stranded tourists were senior citizens on a package tour of farm stays in Anji, the bamboo hometown, the Shanghai Tourism Administration said.
Officials said all the tourists had been moved to safety and power supplies had been restored.
Another group of 44 tourists from Shanghai, who were trapped by discharged floodwater from a reservoir in Zhejiang's Pan'an County, were also safe.
The flood had cut off the road to their hotel.
The group would return to Shanghai when weather conditions improved, tourism officials said.
Another two groups with 78 tourists from Shanghai had also been stranded in Pan'an but were safe.
Sun, 20, winner of four medals at the London Games including two golds, and 16-year-old Ye, who set new world and Olympic records to win two golds, had arrived back in Beijing on Monday.
Both are from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, and had planned to take a flight home from Beijing yesterday. However, all flights were canceled and they decided to take the train.
They were on the 8.05am high-speed G31 service due to arrive in Hangzhou at 2:25pm but it stopped at Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province at around noon because of the typhoon. Sun later microblogged that he was trapped on the train.
When the train eventually continued its journey it got only as far as Shanghai where it terminated at the city's Honqiao Railway Station at 7.30pm, according to another passenger's microblog.
Typhoon Haikui approached Hangzhou's Xiaoshan District at around 2pm yesterday, and then crossed Hangzhou from south to northwest at a speed of 15 to 20 kilometers per hour.
Between Monday night and 6pm yesterday, the rainfall in Hangzhou was 97.5 millmeters, while in Lin'an City, it reached 422.6 millmeters, the highest in the province, according to Hangzhou weather officials.
It is estimated that rain will linger in the city over the next three days.
By 5pm yesterday, police in Hangzhou had received 691 phone calls about the typhoon and had rescued 117,323 people, the Public Security Bureau said.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport was closed yesterday with about 200 people stranded there.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,638 Shanghai tourists were trapped for a time in Anji County in neighboring Zhejiang Province last night after a road was swept away and power supplies were cut off.
About 1,000 of the stranded tourists were senior citizens on a package tour of farm stays in Anji, the bamboo hometown, the Shanghai Tourism Administration said.
Officials said all the tourists had been moved to safety and power supplies had been restored.
Another group of 44 tourists from Shanghai, who were trapped by discharged floodwater from a reservoir in Zhejiang's Pan'an County, were also safe.
The flood had cut off the road to their hotel.
The group would return to Shanghai when weather conditions improved, tourism officials said.
Another two groups with 78 tourists from Shanghai had also been stranded in Pan'an but were safe.
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